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My phone buzzed as I sat listening to a Mariachi group at my mother in law’s birthday party. I looked down to a text from my sister, asking if I had heart about the attacks unfolding back home in the States. As I learned of the mall stabbing spree in Minnesota, and the bombs in New York and New Jersey, I found myself shockingly un-phased.

It’s simply become our new normal—so I wasn’t shocked. I was saddened, but not shocked.

Soon after, I found out my family was at Crossroads Mall shortly before Dahir Ahmed Adans stabbed 10 people in a radical Islam-fueled rampage.

That shook me out of my “new normal” stupor. And it dawned on me just how many people don’t realize the incredibly dangerous position we’re all in. We’re a world ablaze with Islamic terror—and as their bloody reign displaces unknown numbers of people, terrorists are taking full and unabashed advantage of the chaos.

And we’re letting it all right on in.

So let’s talk.

Why can we make instant assumptions about police officers, but when terrorists tell us EXACTLY WHY they do what they do, we’re told we can’t assume we know the cause?

Hillary Clinton reacted to the Tulsa officer involved shooting of a black man by saying that “We have got to tackle systemic racism.” She continued: “This horrible shooting again. How many times do we have to see this in our country?”

She “cautioned reporters not to draw conclusions about the incidents before the facts are in.”

Bottom line? These terrorists are telling us exactly who they are. Before, during, and after the attacks.

We have the facts.

Can you tell me when our country has reacted to the Muslim community the way the African American community reacts to officer involved shootings?

Without fail, every terror attack is immediately followed by an assumption that the Muslim community has something to fear from those of us on the receiving end of radicalism.

Tell me (save for the isolated bursts of frustration), where exactly have non-Muslims ever reacted violently and on a large scale the way that some in the African American community react to officer involved shootings? Look at North Carolina. The same people who call for unity after a terrorist attack are strangely silent as Black Lives Matter protesters rampage through communities, destroying livelihoods, harming police and spreading hate.

Does it matter if it’s a “lone wolf” attack?

Does labeling certain attackers, like the one in Minnesota, as “lone wolf” somehow make them less awful? Does the fact that Islamic State or al-Qaeda did not specifically call the shots somehow bring people’s lives back?

For the record, these “lone wolves” are getting to be a heck of a pack.

Why? Because (to paraphrase Texas Governor Abbot) we must balance empathy with security. We must ensure that this disease of evil horror like thisdoesn’t spread before helping others.

Period.

Do you understand what the Somali refugee situation has done to the state of Minnesota?

These refugees, like the Syrian refugees today, were fleeing conflict in their country—and terrorists followed them as they resettled in the U.S.:

“The radicals understood the density of people in the Somali neighborhoods … the terrorists set up programs to ‘save’ the kids. They’d invite the youth to the mosques were they’d be ‘trained’ spiritually.” (Click here to read more about Abdirizak Bihi’s work in the “Little Mogadishu” neighborhood of Minneapolis.)

Minnesota is first in the nation when it comes to terror recruitment. 60+ Somalis from Minnesota have successfully joined terrorist organizations, with others stopped in transit—and still others sending money to help the groups.

One Somali American enticed into fighting (and eventually dying in Syria) for Islamic State—Abdirahmaan Muhumed—had tarmac clearance at Minneapolis St. Paul airport where he cleaned and refueled airplanes.

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